Preoccupied as we are with its current convolutions, we forget that history has often been made here and cultural amnesia can be as much an asset as an affliction. History, it seems, is easy to make in this place. In the last two years, Seattle has evolved so far so fast that the hyper-progressive trinity of marriage equality, legal weed and $15-an-hour minimum wage is already a just another bullet point on the city’s permanent record. Seattle’s first disco nudged the city toward its left-leaning future.
